Enhancing Collaboration During Parent Training

By: Dr. Bridget Taylor, PsyD, BCBA-D
Published: Apr 18, 2021
Enhancing Collaboration During Parent Training, RethinkBH Webinar presenter Bridget A. Taylor

Clinicians often struggle with parental nonadherence to treatment recommendations made during parent training activities.

Adherence may be improved by nurturing a collaborative relationship with family members. Collaboration requires specific relational responses of clinicians such as:

  • actively and empathically listening
  • compromising
  • compassionately understanding each family’s unique circumstance

This talk will review strategies to foster collaboration with parents, with the goal of improving adherence to treatment recommendations and more!

About the Author

Bridget A. Taylor Headshot

Executive Director at Alpine Learning Group and Senior Clinical Advisor at Rethink

Dr. Bridget A. Taylor is co-founder and CEO of Alpine Learning Group and is Senior Clinical Advisor for Rethink. Dr. Taylor has specialized in the education of children with Autism for over 30 years. She holds a Doctor of Psychology from Rutgers University and received her Master’s degree in Early Childhood Special Education from Columbia University. She is a Board-Certified Behavior Analyst and a Licensed Psychologist. She is past president of the Behavior Analyst Certification Board and past Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis. She currently serves on several editorial boards and the Autism Advisory Group for the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies.

Active in the Autism research community, Dr. Taylor has published numerous peer-reviewed research articles and book chapters, on innovative practices to improve the lives of individuals with autism. Dr. Taylor was recently recognized by the Association for Applied Behavior Analysis International for her outstanding contributions and was given ABAI’s Fellow designation.

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